WARNING: Plot Details. Not ending.The film takes place in scenic South Africa. We get the National Geographic tour. The film starts out great showing us Halle Berry's cleavage, a guy filming her cleavage, and then they throw a shark into the film...and no more cleavage. Halle's hobby is to pet Great Whites in open water out of a cage. She is married to Jeff who films the action. So when sharks suddenly behave badly, Halle quits diving with them.After a year, Jeff is trying to get back with Halle. The have fights about the relationship. The film contains Halle doing a first person philosophical narration and the music is very tame, not what one expects for an action/thriller. Halle who has spent 10 years in the water doesn't like the smell of fish and screams when someone tries to push her in. Clearly this is an action flick written for women, or by a woman (Amy Sorlie). In one scene Jeff apologizes for whatever it was that made Halle angry. Halle is angry that he doesn't know why she is angry and won't tell him...because he should know! She finally says, "You have no idea what's wrong with me!"As Halle's business starts to fail, a wealthy Brit (Ralph Brown) trying to connect with his son (Mark Elderkin) wants to swim with Great Whites without a cage. Halle is reluctant but agrees.They set out in the water to go dancing with sharks. And if everything went well, there wouldn't be a movie. Dad fights with son, Jeff fights with dad, Halle fights with Jeff, and Halle fights with dad. At this point I was hoping a two headed mega shark would swallow the whole boat. The climatic scene I can't detail because I have no idea what is happening. Everyone is in the same dark suits and it is dark. The full view film of the sharks appear to be stock footage. (Ed Wood would be so proud.) This is more of a drama with some poorly shot action scenes.No f-bombs (that I caught), sex, or nudity. Some PG-13 name calling. Might be enjoyed by women who like a soft female lead in an "action thriller."

This film is beautifully shot and despite a rather lacklustre performance by Halle Berry, I found the movie developed a progressively gripping pace with fantastic camera work throughout. No, this is not a Hollywood blockbuster like Deep Blue Sea, however for me what that lacked was the degree of natural realism that this film has in spades. With stunning visuals that we are usually only treated to in the best nature documentaries, I found Dark Tide to be a gripping thriller with some of the finest shark scenes of any film since perhaps Jaws or The Reef.Admittedly, the initial momentum at the opening of the film is somewhat slow however, to develop this character-driven storyline prior to the momentous shark scenes, i felt was this was a price worth paying. In my opinion, those that are harshly scoring this are perhaps missing the true point of the film. Wonderful attention and accuracy is paid to breaking the commonly portrayed Hollywood misconceptions about sharks and I especially loved the note to 'Sharkman', Mike Rutzen in the final credits.Overall some fantastic underwater photography and a cinematically realistic, plausible portrayal of events without the wanton use of CGI so easily used these days. I decided to ignore the rating and i'm glad I did..

After watching this movie all I can say is visually it had some stunning moments, maybe it's because I'm a shark person but I quite enjoyed the visuals. Besides that everything else was totally stupid. There doesn't seem to be any kind of plot, you start of thinking one thing but then by the next seen you're completely thinking another. It is a very confusing movie. Halle Berry starts the movie as the level headed shark expert but by the end she has completely lost it and is now the moron who costs two people their lives. The deaths in this were completely avoidable and had it been real life Halle would be in prison for manslaughter and reckless endangerment. This movie makes no sense and can't even be classed as B grade. Give this movie a miss. Not even the stunning visuals make this movie worth watching at all.

Here is a movie that I really can't believe made it out of editing. Lots of over dramatized glances with appalling dialog....inexplicable yelling and mood swings from the characters....lots of "I'm in deep thought right now" scenes and finally end it all up with more glancing and triteness. I can always count on one thing and that is that Hollywood continues to release LOTS of really bad flicks! Here is yet another....Should be a real career ender for Halle...possibly worse than "Catwoman" Fortunatly for me....I really enjoy making fun of terrible flicks...so as I was laughing at the scene duplications....of which there are many...I also got some belly laughs from the editing....lots of wardrobe fubars that apparently the editor didn't spot....Really???